How to save lives in rain-scripted landslides

An accurate early warning system that correlates rainfall and the potential for landslides. That is the imperative, say experts as rains create havoc in hills across India and the toll mounts in......

Respecting Religious Sentiments Doesn't Mean Constructing 6-Lane Highways

In recent years, the twin demands of both religion and defence have been added to the development argument to sweep aside environmental and terrain considerations while undertaking infrastructure......

Assam CM alleges PFI hand behind Darrang violence

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday claimed the Popular Front of India (PFI) was involved in violence during an eviction drive in Darrang district which saw police firing on......

How TN's poll sops went from entitlement to empowerment

A time has thus come when state encouragement for rural students led to empowerment of the socio-economically marginalised sections of the population. It included women. Today, with greater......

Why a PR agency cannot fulfill Modi's Swachh Bharat dream

Gimmicks such as appointing high-profile brand ambassadors like Sachin Tendulkar and his ilk or issuing “challenges” to sundry people have scarcely convinced the no-changers so far,......

How to keep our cities clean

The problem is to integrate the technology with a system of household level segregation so that waste does not end up in landfills, but is processed and reused, says Sunita Narain. We know that we......

Tata Motors nets Lionel Messi as brand ambassador

Associating with a celebrity is a first in the company’s decades-long historySoccer great Lionel Messi will become the face of Tata Motors’ passenger vehicles portfolio. The Argentinian......

India remains mostly rural and poor

  We can get a measure of the rural poverty from the fact that 38.3 per cent of households are landless and earn mostly from casual labour, notes Subir Roy It is not as if we did not know a......

10 BEST Sports Photos of the Week!

In the wake of the deadly terror attack in Paris, sports events around the world paid tribute to the victims in a touching manner. In the English Premier League, Liverpool's players were quick to......

'F1 will never succeed in the US'

Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the car but the romance of Formula One, that sets hearts of motor sports fans around the world a flutter, has never managed to get pulses racing......

Stewart wins NASCAR title in style

Tony Stewart was crowned NASCAR's champion on a tiebreak on Sunday after his magnificent drive won the Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in a showdown with rival Carl Edwards. Stewart's......

Patrick stays in IndyCar but NASCAR door is open

Danica Patrick left the door open to racing part-time in NASCAR on Tuesday after confirming a three-year deal to stay with Andretti Autosport in the IndyCar series. Patrick is the biggest name in......

Montoya ready for NASCAR Nextel Cup debut

Former Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya took a major step in his transition to NASCAR racing when he qualified for the Ford 400 Nextel Cup race at Miami Homestead Speedway on Friday. The......